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Thursday, December 13, 2012

There are minorities then there are minorities

It
is taken for granted by the liberal establishment that they are
more caring and more committed to tolerance than anyone else in the world. When
it is pointed out that it is conservatives who give more to charity liberals
will often respond by pointing out their commitment to ensure that minorities,
and not just racial minorities, are never oppressed by the majority.

Since Americans in general don’t like oppressing their fellow
citizens liberals gain support among the non-politically in tune population
with the claim that liberals stand for any minority.

When looking at racial minorities there is clearly no basis for
liberals to claim the high ground. Historically it has been liberals, such as
FDR, who supported public racism not conservatives. Conservatives have never
argued for discrimination against minorities based on race, after all it was
conservatives like Dwight Eisenhower who pushed strongly for integration and
who voted for the Civil rights act of 1964.

While liberals do attempt to lie about their support of racial
minorities--primarily by declaring that racially discriminatory laws are ok so
long as only Whites, and more recently Asians, are discriminated against--
often liberals hitch their moral back patting on liberals support for
non-racial minorities.

Liberals for example champion the rights of atheists to not have
to see religious symbols or hear religious speech, the right of gays to declare
any non-transitory “sexual” relationship to be a marriage, the right of Nazi’s
to march in a neighborhood full of Holocaust survivors, the right of Muslims to
build a triumphalist building next to Ground Zero,and the right of Occupy Wall Street to
violate most any law.

Because all of these groups make up only a tiny proportion of the
population--atheists are about 2.4% of Americans, Muslims, OWCers,and Nazi’s are much less than 1%, and gays
are between 1 and 3%--liberals say that supporting the positions of these tiny
minorities over the position of the vast majority of Americans show that
liberals are tolerant; unlike those evil conservatives.Liberals tell voters that liberals can be
trusted because they won’t oppress even minorities.

The problem of course is that the liberals do not in fact support
the rights of minorities in general.

In the case of the HHS mandate liberals support the
right of the
government to force Catholics to directly pay for services they
find morally evil.

Catholics are clearly a minority making up only about26% of Americans, with even a smaller portion
who care enough about the Church’s teaching on contraception to be impacted by
the mandate.Therefore if liberals
really believe in the right of the minority to not be trampled by the majority
liberals would have to stand with Catholics who oppose the HHS mandate.

Of course liberals are clearly not standing with faithful
Catholics but instead are arguing vigorously that Catholics have no right to
expect to be able to exercise the Catholic faith in their daily life.

The situation is even worse for liberals than it appears at first
glance.In the case of atheists liberals
believe that atheists should not be required to view Christian symbology on
public property; that is liberals believe that atheists cannot even be required
to tolerate being exposed to Christian symbolism.

In the case of the HHS mandate the issue is not one of tolerance
since no Catholic company has ever fired or discriminated against an employee
because that employee--or their spouse--used contraception or had an
abortion.Instead the issue is the
forced direct funding by Catholics of contraceptives, sterilization, and
abortion inducing chemicals. The correct analogy would be if the majority
wanted to make atheistsdirectly pay for
Bibles and facilitate Bible study classes for their employees.That is liberals are not asking Catholics to
tolerate the will of the majority but to become directly complicit in what the
majority has declared to be good.

Another minority that liberals have no sympathy for are gun
owners. Roughly 47% of Americans own guns yet liberals are constantly
trying to eliminate that minorities right to own guns.Interestingly liberals are also quite keen on
helping people who use guns to commit crimes to get off with no or minimal
punishment if certain arcane procedural rules aren’t followed.

Recently the liberal establishment has picked a new minority to
be declared, by liberals, to be public enemy number one; no not drug dealers or
rapists but rather the top 1% of Americans based on wealth.Liberals are clear in saying that the
majority has every right to confiscate as much of this economic minorities
wealth as they want. Once again liberals are declaring that the majority can
target certain minority groups for special, and discriminatory, treatment.

Finally liberals clearly have no problem with the majority
oppressing the minority in the case of ObamaCare. To support the right of the
government to take over the health care of most Americans on a strictly party
line vote is a clear case of a highly transitory liberal majority oppressing
the conservative minority.

How is it possible to reconcile the liberal claims on tolerance
with the actions of liberals?

The answer is simply that liberals have no interest in minority
rights except to the extent that minorities can be used to further liberal
beliefs.This can be seen by looking at
which minorities liberals support and why.

Liberals support atheists because liberals in general don’t like
the fact that religion puts limits on the authority of government.In the liberal universe men owe their first
loyalty to the government not God.

Liberals support gays because liberals, in general, support
sexual promiscuity and the decorrelation of sex and responsibility.Additionally breaking down the traditional
family gives the “village”, ie government bureaucrats, more authority over
other peoples children; a key step in ensuring that men will view the
government as the source of all good.

Liberals support Muslims because Muslims oppose Jews and
Christians and Muslims are too scary to cross.Since Muslims are too tiny a minority to actually oppress liberals
liberals don’t worry that supporting Muslims will turn people away from the government.

Liberals support Nazi’s because liberal anti-semitism--shown by
their support of those who would commit a new genocide against Jews--has been
suppressed but not eradicated. It’s one thing to say that Jews and Palestinians
need to get along it’s quite another to say that it’s ok for Palestinians to
call for the slaughter of Jews in the Middle East.

On the other hand minorities that don’t support liberal beliefs
are treated very differently by liberals.

Liberals support the oppression of Catholics by the HHS mandate
because liberals believe that Catholic morality is wrong. If the HHS mandate
required abstinence based sex education or women to use natural family planning
we all know that liberal shrieks would be heard as far away as Tiananmen
square.

Liberals want to remove guns from honest people because liberals
don’t want an armed citizenry who could put a halt to government expansion and
because liberals generally believe that most Americans are too stupid or
unprincipled to be capable of safely owning a gun; all those red neck fly over
folks who cling to their guns are not well respected by liberals.

Liberals have no problems with the majority arbitrarily raising
taxes on the minority because liberals believe that government, if run by
liberals, is the rightful owner of all wealth in the country. While not overtly
Communist-- in that most liberals don’t believe in a 100% tax rate -- liberals
do believe that the government has the right and obligation to ensure
“fairness” of outcome; everyone gets the same paycheck no matter how hard or
how little they work.

Liberals believe that ObamaCare can be forced on everyone because
liberals believe that the same government which they condemn for bloated
inefficiency when talking about the DoD is more efficient than private industry
when dealing with healthcare. Because ObamaCare extends government power it
doesn’t matter to liberals that 20 or more times more Americans oppose
ObamaCare than oppose a Creche in a public park at Christmas.

As part of the conservative effort to deconstruct the
false front that hard core liberals use to gain the support of average
Americans it’s a good idea to continually point out that liberals are not
tolerant and do not support the rights of minorities in America.

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i was found under a rock by a wandering tribe of Albanian nuclear physicists. Used as a radioactive source for a series of illegal interstellar rocket tests during my youth i finally escaped by imitating a government bureaucrat and boring my captors into a coma. i made my fortune by suing the developer of the pet rock for copying my personality. Financially independent i settled down to a life of leisure in the American Midwest. Unfortunately i lost my wealth through a bad investment in a biotechnology company which was attempting to develop a mouse which looked like Elvis. Forced to wander the world i started taking odd jobs as a lowly computer programmer.